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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.

Milton Friedman

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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People Poor Start Wind Yourself
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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Government Money Save
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
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Determination Difference Oppression Poor Respect Teaching
There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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Existence Government Ideal Rule
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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Equality Government Greatness Myself Privilege World
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
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Drug Government Protection See True War
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
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Business Enemy Freedom Man Rival
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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Depression Employment Government Greatness Management
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
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Dream Money Politics Technique Vote
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
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Avoid Power Problem Rule World

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